Champaign is home to about 88,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar saved on software goes further.
Stilt Walkers in Illinois need a Business License. Requirements vary — contact your city or county business licensing office for current details.
Insurance: $500K-$1M general liability
Continuing Education: Check with state licensing board
Illinois has a 4.95% flat income tax. Flat 4.95% income tax. Chicago has additional taxes and licensing requirements. High property taxes statewide. Cook County has specific contractor requirements.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $1,356/year software expense is partially deductible — but Nexa at $279 once is a one-time deduction that eliminates the recurring expense entirely.
Whether you call it invoicing, a app for jobs, or a invoicing system — most stilt walkers in Champaign juggle HoneyBook, Acuity Scheduling, FreshBooks, Square and other monthly services. That's $1,356/year in monthly software fees. Over the next 5 years at today's prices, that stack costs $6,780.
Nexa lets you own your tools. Your CRM, invoicing, booking, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — wrapped into one app. One move books a client. One move generates an invoice. No manual re-entry. No Zapier. No per-connection charges. It's a one-time purchase — stop overpaying starting today. For stilt walkers in Champaign weighing the switch, the 30-day money-back guarantee covers the migration window — you can run Nexa in parallel with your existing subscriptions, verify the workflow handles your real client load, and only cancel the monthly tools once you are confident the data and processes have settled in.
The day starts checking the venue specs before anything else, because at eight feet tall a low doorway, a chandelier, or a soft patch of grass is the difference between a great gig and a trip to the ER. You strap into the drywall stilts using a mounting chair, take the first careful steps to find your balance, and let the costume's extra-long legs fall right so the illusion of a ten-foot person holds. The gig is a festival, so you're parading through crowds that immediately press in for photos, and you're constantly reading the ground, scanning for gravel, a curb, a slope, a cable taped to the floor, anything that could catch a stilt. A spotter walks with you because a bumped stilt at that height is no small fall. You work the crowd, wave, pose, maybe juggle a few clubs, all while there's nowhere to sit, so the set length you agreed to actually matters to your body. Between sets you find the one chair tall enough to rest against without dismounting. Indoor jobs are a gamble you can't take blind, so you turn down or modify any booking where the ceiling won't clear your headpiece. The day ends checking the stilt straps and joints for wear, because the equipment is the only thing between you and the ground.
That is the work Nexa is built around: the job, the client, the hours and the invoice live in one place, so the paperwork side of the day doesn't need a second shift.
Every one of those was bought once and earns its keep for years. Nexa is priced the same way: $279 once, and it keeps working whether business is busy or slow.
Dated changes to the subscriptions a stilt walker might rent. Each one links the announcement or report it comes from. Tap one for the numbers.
For renewals on or after February 1, 2026, Pro Plus and Mac Plus went from $999 to $1,149 a year for one user, and each extra seat from $200 to $230.
Source: SWK Technologies, Insightful Accountant (Dec 2, 2025)
From July 1, 2025: Simple Start $35 to $38, Essentials $65 to $75, Plus $99 to $115, Advanced $235 to $275 a month.
Source: Woodard Report (May 27, 2025)
From February 4, 2025: Starter $19 to $36 (89%), Essentials $39 to $59, Premium $79 to $125 a month.
Source: Fstoppers (Jan 24, 2025)
Only changes we can link to a vendor announcement or a named publication are listed. Plans, add-ons and discounts vary, so check the vendor's current pricing page before you decide.
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We build a stilt walker's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a stilt walker — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.